fordwannabe wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2017 6:53 pm Thanks for the offer...but after 40 years of wanting, I think I'll hold onto it more than FOUR DAYS.

I guess that is a bit of an understandable choice.

fordwannabe wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2017 8:19 pm I picked up a 1939 vintage 71 this week. In pretty good shape for being 78 years old. Standard grade rifle less than a grand.

Wow congrats. If you want to make a few bucks in that I know a guy who is interested lol.

I tried sending you an email. Let me know if you don't get it

Thanks for all the great replies. Looks like I just need to find me a nice one. Nobody on here has a nice extra shooter by any chance? Or looking to try a pig hunt in east Texas and willing to let me check out a 71 lol Something tells me you didn't real all the post... :wink: I read it and tried to...

Thanks for all the great replies. Looks like I just need to find me a nice one. Nobody on here has a nice extra shooter by any chance? Or looking to try a pig hunt in east Texas and willing to let me check out a 71 lol

I appreciate the responses so far. I know about killing pigs. I shot a nice boar this morning with a '41 built Winchester 94 30-30 in the hay field before I started cutting hay. I'm more curious about how the 71 handles up close and how well the 348 works from touching distance to about 200. We have...

I have a few lever guns, but thoughts of a Model 71 led me here to register and ask this question. I'm from East Texas and spend a lot of time out on the family ranch hunting pigs. The ranch has a lot of creek bottom and therefore lots of hogs. I never hunt hogs from a stand or over bait. I walk and...